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Front matter 1 Dedication 6 Contents 8 List of contributors 10 Acknowledgements 13 Working for the clampdown: an introduction 14 Part I: ‘No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones’: The Clash, thepolitics of pop and the neoliberal conjuncture 46 The Clash, revolution and reverse 48 The Clash and musical artistry: against the corporate voice 65 ‘Up in heaven (not only here)’: The Clash, left melancholia and the politics of redemption 82 Part II: ‘Back in the garage with my bullshit detector’: The Clashand the cultural politics of punk 100 ‘Are you going backwards, Or are you going forwards?’ – England past and England future in 1970s punk 102 Retrieving the messianic promise of punk: The Clash in 1977 120 What if Keith Levene had never left The Clash? Punk and the politics of novelty 142 ‘The beautiful people are ugly too’: The Clash as my ‘true fiction’ 157 Part III: ‘It could be anywhere, Most likely could be any frontier,Any hemisphere’: The Clash around the world 172 ‘Up and down the Westway’ or ‘live by the river’? Britishness, Englishness, London and The Clash 174 ‘Cashing in the bill of rights’? The Clash in New York, in myth and reality 191 The one struggle: The Clash, Gar

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